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Does anyone know a ballpark of what these settings might be for this sound card?
Here are my current settings as determined by a spectrum analyzer I used which has since crapped out:
PEQ Gain: 12db
PEQ Freq: 250 Hz
PEQ Width: 10 Oct
Tilt -55Unless the gain and width were turned all the way up there was a serious lacking in lows and mid-range. The biggest dip was at the 250 Hz mark; hence the freq setting.
It sounds close to other stations but not quite as loud. Turning the final drive higher than -6.0 dB results in complete crap sound.
I would say that the lower priced the design goals, and the lower the bar is for quality control, the more variance you should expect to see between individual units.
So there really isn’t an exact tilt or PEQ setting I would recommend, especially not for a card like that.
Not to mention the drivers can cause just as many problems as the "profit at all costs" methods that Creative Labs employs for the most part… if one doesn’t know what the pitfalls are to avoid.
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That being said, I think the best investment you can make would be to pick up an E-MU 0404 PCIe, or even better… a Marian Trace Alpha. It’s a worthy goal to shoot for, not having to put up with total crap, or even partially crap sound.
Thanks so much. I figured this sound card was a hunk of crap in a PCI slot. 🙂 I’ll do as you suggested.
The tilt setting is really what varies most on most any card that’s not DC straight. So you’re probably doing ok to be using the PEQ like you are, if there’s not a lack of HF.
The problem with correction via EQ is that I would highly doubt that the dip around the midbass is linear. Meaning the dip there is also a sign of possible distortion.
Cheers.
If anything I’d say there’s a slight saturation of HF, but it’s tolerable. I remember when using my spectrum analyzer the PEQ settings mostly affected the areas of loss (mid range) without blowing highs and lows out of proportion.
I was able to improve the audio substantially by reversing the sound cards. Using the stereo mix of the audigy as the input and using the onboard realtek as the output to the exciter.
SB Audigy SE its a 96khz only sound card, then no RDS and bad stereo quality in FM mode. Maybe your realtek card will be 192khz, you can use the realtek input too with good results, the realtek have better tonal balance. Keep away from SB for radio 😀 😀 .
By the way, what are the tilt for your realtek card?
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